Excerpt from With Sa'di in the Garden: Or the Book of Love; Being the Ishk or Third Chapter of the Bostan of the Persian Poet Sa'di; Embodied in a Dialogue Held in the Garden of the Taj Mahal, at Agra Ah, the white wonder! Have there been who came And gazed, and laid staff and surveying chain Along thy sacred sides, Fairest of fanes! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.